MACROMEDIA FLASH MX 2004 - ACTIONSCRIPT Reference Manual page 593

printAsBitmap()
Availability
Flash Player 4.20.
Note: If you are authoring for Flash Player 7 or later, you can create a PrintJob object, which gives
you (and the user) more control over the printing process. For more information, see the
class entry.
Usage
printAsBitmap(target, "Bounding box")
Parameters
The instance name of movie clip to print. By default, all of the frames in the movie are
target
printed. If you want to print specific frames in the movie, attach a
Bounding box
quotation marks, and specify one of the following values:
•
Designates the bounding box of a specific frame in a movie as the print area for all
bmovie
printable frames in the movie. Assign a
want to use as the print area.
•
Designates a composite of all of the bounding boxes of all the printable frames as the
bmax
print area. Specify the
•
Indicates that the bounding box of each printable frame should be used as the print
bframe
area for that frame. This changes the print area for each frame and scales the objects to fit the
print area. Use
to fill the printed page.
Returns
Nothing.
Description
Function; prints the
parameter (
bmovie
with objects that use transparency or color effects. The
highest available resolution of the printer in order to maintain as much definition and quality
as possible.
If your movie does not contain alpha transparencies or color effects, Macromedia recommends
that you use
print()
If you use
bmovie
print area is determined by the Stage size of the loaded movie. (The loaded movie does not inherit
the main movie's Stage size.)
All of the printable elements in a movie must be fully loaded before printing can begin.
The Flash Player printing feature supports PostScript and non-PostScript printers. Non-
PostScript printers convert vectors to bitmaps.
See also
,
print() printAsBitmapNum()
A modifier that sets the print area of the movie. Enclose this parameter in
parameter when the printable frames in your movie vary in size.
bmax
if you have objects of different sizes in each frame and want each object
bframe
movie clip as a bitmap according to the boundaries specified in the
target
, , or ). Use
bmax bframe
for better quality results.
for the
Bounding box
, PrintJob
frame label to the frame whose bounding box you
#b
to print movies that contain frames
printAsBitmap()
printAsBitmap()
parameter but do not assign a
class,
printNum()
PrintJob
frame label to those frames.
#p
action prints at the
label to a frame, the
#b
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